SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, March 16. (Received March 17, at 10.50 a.m.) An application was made before the Chief Justice by Mrs Wilis for probate of a will under which she is appointed trustee for her son in the matter of 20,000 acres of land at Cunnarnulla. The Chief Justice said the circumstances of the case were peculiar. Mrs Willis is the wife of W. N. Willis, concerned in the land transactions in New South Wales, and already holtus three blocks of 20,000 acres adjoining the one she seeks to control under the will. The act limits the holding of grazing lands to 60,000 acres. The witnesses to the will are Hoskings and Mlfair, whose names also are well known. The Chief Justice held that the circumstances were so suspicious that he must adjourn the application for fiilkr iaTsstigaluuj,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13545, 19 March 1906, Page 5
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